2022/2023 Undergraduate Research Projects
Zach Hart
Put a ring on it: Effects of climate change on growth of Pinus banksiana and Pinus
rigida at opposing range margins
Lilian Gunderson
Taphonomy of nautiloid cephlopods from the middle Silurian Massie Formation of southeastern Indiana: Encrustation, bioerosion, corrasion, surface damage, and dissolution
Maddie Lehman
Not just a number: How disturbance history has shaped temporal and spatial
forest structure at the Altona Flat Rock
Caley Doell
A Little Bird Told Me…: Habitat Use by Avian Species Following Wildfire in a
Disturbed Jack Pine Barrens
Shannon Cooper
Tree-mendous trouble: Influence of tree encroachment on evapotranspiration in a boreal peatland at its southern range limit
Angelo Sinisgalli
Microplastics in Lake Champlain Fishes: Characterization and New Techniques
Owen Lorenzetti, Sarah Lester, Gabrielle Monroe, andRiley Stone
Comparing Herpetofauna Microbiome Diversity Across Northern New York
Lena Jude Lacherez
Are bifurcated pirasocrinid crinoid tegmen spines the result of a normal growth process or a pathological response to predation-induced damage? Preliminary statistical results
Ian Mahoney, Rhiannon Morgenroth, and Katherine “Ky” Gennosa
Effects of Landscape Context on Painted Turtle Population Structure in Northern New York
Drew Billups and Lilian Gunderson
Nautiloid cephalopods as substrata for encrustation by stalked echinoderms in the middle Silurian (Wenlock) Massie Formation of southeastern Indiana
Shannon Cooper
There's something in the water: Patterns in groundwater chemistry in the Lake Champlain basin
Ann Randall
Quantifying the phosphorus contributions of urban street trees to Lake Champlain
James Wholey
The Burning Question: How is structural diversity shaped by wildfire at a Jack
Pine barrens?
Parker LeClair and Alex Mercier
Testing the sensitivity of magnetic susceptibility to unconformities, flooding surfaces, and redox rhythms: Saluda through Laurel formations (Upper Ordovician through middle Silurian) of western Kentucky
Casey Halloran
Living Among The Ash: The Impacts of Wildfire on Wildlife Use Patterns on a
Pinus banksiana (Jack Pine) Barrens
Devan Bushey, Caley Doell, and Eric Steckler
Wingin’ It: A Survey of Bat Populations in Varying Habitats in Northern New York
Shannon Cooper, Zachary Hart,and Meghan Bargabos
Assessing Small Mammal Richness and Abundance Following Wildfires
James Ferrone
Distribution and Taphonomy of crinoids through the 'Roaring Brook Butter Shale' interval of the Waynesville Formation (Upper Ordovician: Katian, Richmondian), southeastern Indiana
Olivia Hoffman
Conjugate structures in the Marcy Massif at Cobble Lookout
Rhys Thompson and Grace Koetzle
An analysis of trail counter data in Clinton County, NY
Graduate Research Projects
Annie Arnold
Bugs in Bogs: Insect biodiversity within a boreal peatland at the southern range limits of the North American Boreal Temperate Ecotone
Lukas Kemmerling
Maximizing mitigation: Quantifying the energetic carrying capacity of mitigation wetlands for waterfowl
Emily Reinhardt
Biker safety concern at Kingdom Trails in Burke, VT
Kayleen Snyder
Long-term Patterns of Phytoplankton Community Composition and Abundance in Lake Champlain: 1970 to 2021
Meghan Bargabos
Wildlife habitat suitability across a chronosequence of wildfire-origin stands
at a Jack Pine barrens
Christien Gilman
Examining the effects of Sylvatic Plague on prairie dog colony size in Boulder Colorado